I remember reading about a plane that had hit the WTC, right here on FR. There was speculation as to the details, especially how large a plane it was. By the time people figured out it was commercial, the Internet bogged down, as did the FR servers, and I had to get the rest of the info from the MSM.
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I was in my office, logging the previous days shipments.
A friend sent me a link about a plane hitting the WTC.
I was composing my smartassed response about poor navigation when the second plane hit.
Never sent that smartassed response.
I wa living in a sober living house during my stint in rehab One of my housemates must have been a bed wetting lib was watching it and said it was an accident even before the second plane hit I said Bull chit it aint over and this is going to change the world and the US forever he laughed it of then the second one hit
Shock, devastating sadness and fear. Hours later after all planes were grounded my husband and I went to the gas station for fill ups. It was lined with cars and people were out talking, it was eerily silent because for some reason everyone was like whispering. Suddenly, someone said, WOW! Look up! There in the sky was AIR FORCE ONE being escorted by at least four fighter jets. To this day, I still get goosebumps when i think of that sight. I remember feeling the greatest sense of pride I have ever felt for this country. But most of all I felt safe because I knew who was in that plane......COWBOYS! I also knew what was coming, REVENGE. As far as I am concerned Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld were Gods gift to this country on that day in history, nothing will ever shake that belief, and I despise liberals for what they did to those true Ameican Heros.
I was living in NYC, working in Manhattan, and had a front row seat.
I had rushed home from dropping the kids off at school to start baking a birthday cake (procrastinating on that right now) when my best friend called, as she usually did every morning. She was a work and they had heard it on the radio. I turned on FOX news and told her it was probably done by that Bin whatshisname. Then the second plane hit. We were on the phone all day about what was happening. She died of a long term medical condition some time later but I always miss her most on 9/11.
I was a university student doing a co-op with an oil company in Calgary (MST - 2 hours difference to NYC) and turned on WPIX before going to work, saw the North Tower on fire. Just as I was leaving to catch the train to work, I saw the second plane hit.
At the office, most everyone was in one of the two lounges on that floor, watching the coverage. I did not feel right about spending so much time watching the news while being paid, so I went back to work, checking in every few minutes.
I recall going back to the lounge, seeing only one tower and asking, “Aren’t there two towers?” The response was, “Not any more.” Reporters were talking about upwards of 20,000 injured, so I quickly call the Canadian Red Cross, to schedule a blood donation. My thinking was that 20K casualities State-side will draw down bloodbanks in all Eastern Canadian cities, so they will need resupply from the West.
Later that morning, a number of US oil company buildings in downtown Calgary were evacuated and shut down and the streets blocked by police. As Calgary is the energy capital of Canada and hosts the largest number of Americans in Canada (65,000), it was considered a prime target. Because of this, I believe that a couple of CF-18s were scrambled from 4 Wing, CFB Cold Lake to fly CAP over Calgary. CAPs were also flown over Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and Vancouver at least until all civilian aircraft landed.
I was NOT at a trade show on the 104th floor of the North Tower that I was scheduled to attend as a representative of Compaq, since on Saturday I had been redirected to support a presentation in the Reagan building in DC. We watched on convention center TVs until BOOM we heard the Pentagon strike. I called Jesse Helms’ office and said we should never again pay these people not to fight each other. His aide said “We are trying to pass a law against that.” When we got out of the Reagan building DC had been transformed. almost every other car has some kind of flashing light on the dash. Took me 4 hours to get home to Alexandria. Spent the next two years helping businesses in NYC recover. My sympathies today are definitely with those who lost loved ones, and in admiration - Go Bikers!
I was stationed in Arizona, seeing patients at 0500 local time.
My front desk clerk said a plane flew into the World Trade Center. I thought about the plane that flew into the Empire State building years ago and kept working.
Then she hollered that the other tower was hit.
I opened FR to see what was happening. Called my wife at home and told her to turn on the TV (We didn't have one at work) She asked what channel? I told her it doesn't matter. She turned it on and I heard her gasp. After a few seconds she asked what should she do? I told her not to leave base, because she'll never get back on.
I emailed a former boss who was assigned to DC to see if she was OK. She finally got back to me a couple days later and told me she had just the Pentagon just before the plane hit.
When I got home that afternoon I sat in front of the TV til well after midnight. Finally went to bed and got up at 0430 to go back to work. I was about two blocks from work at 0500 and the country music station I had playing in my SUV played Lee Greenwood's “God Bless The USA.” I pulled over and cried like a baby.
A couple days later, because lines getting onto base were backed up a mile or so, we found a family who lived off base whose children went to school on base who would meet us at the gate. They would take our kids to their off base school, and we took theirs. Kind of like a Cold War spy exchange.
I remember telling the kids nothing would ever be the same in America but even then, I didn't realize how MUCH things would change. We've lost so much since the attacks; freedom, blood, lives, innocence, money and now....our Country as we knew it.
It boils my blood when I think about the political elite in America bending over backward to accommodate the barbaric Muslims. We should be treating them as enemies, not working toward changing the hearts and minds of Americans to accept them and their uncivilized hoards. I wonder, on the anniversary of this horror, how many Muslims have come to America since then. I never saw a Muslim before the attacks, now I see them everywhere.
I was at work in 18th FLTS, AFSOC, Hurlburt Field, FL. My supervisor came down the hall and asked if an airplane had ever flown into a skyscraper. I told him a light twin engine bomber flew into a skyscraper about the time World War II ended. They were flying in fog and low ceilings.
Then he asked me stupid question # 1 - What about clear weather? When I asked him to repeat the question for a stupidity check he realized what he had just happened; we both wore USAF wings.
When the second one flew in I turned him and said we are at war. He then asked him how long it would last - I told him between one and two Presidential election cycles. It would take that long for politicians to decide how to take advantage of it.